Find the Cliffhanger: Multi-modal Trailerness in Soap Operas

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Abstract

Creating a trailer requires carefully picking out and piecing together brief enticing moments out of a longer video, making it a challenging and time-consuming task. This requires selecting moments based on both visual and dialogue information. We introduce a multi-modal method for predicting the trailerness to assist editors in selecting trailer-worthy moments from long-form videos. We present results on a newly introduced soap opera dataset, demonstrating that predicting trailerness is a challenging task that benefits from multi-modal information.

Type
Publication
In MultiMedia Modeling
Carlo Bretti
Carlo Bretti
PhD candidate

My research lays at the intersection of computer vision and film, with applications on automatic trailer generation and retrieval.